Why does Anaconda overrides user decisions?

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Until you come to repartitioning a disc when you want to keep some of
>> the stuff on it.  I've had discs where I wanted to remove the extended
>> partition, and keep the first normal partition, then re-use the rest of
>> the disc.  It refused to delete the extended partition because it
>> insisted that there was a virtual partition inside it, but there wasn't.

Chris Murphy:
> When you say "it refused" what's it? Sounds like a bug though.

It's some time ago, so I can't recall what tool.  Yes, it does sound
like a bug, whether that was in the partitioning tool I was trying to
use, or whether the disc had been badly partitioned, previously, I don't
know.

>> It's a horrid scheme, only surpassed in evilness by the bastard LVM.

> OK well, it at least solves the non-contiguous regions problem of
> partitions by presenting those regions as if they were contiguous.

But giving you something that had no fsck tools (does it have one,
now?).

Then there was the fun of figuring out how to manually mount partitions,
for those cases where you wanted to plug in some other drive.  It had
its own peculiar tools for that, and problems abound for like-named
partitions (such as trying to mount your /home from another computer).

And it's feature that allowed you to span partitions across more than
one drive was a double-edged sword.  Sure, you could create a mega huge
partition, but a failure on any disc rendered the entirety of your huge
faked-up partition dead.

> So if you're going to reject MBR, EBR and LVM, you're left with GPT.
> While that has redundant and checksummed partition data, it doesn't
> solve the discontiguous space issue. And you're at the whim of your
> firmware, whether it'll tolerate GPT without face planting.

Well, only if nobody comes up with yet another way...  ;-)

I rather liked how my old Amiga partitioned, you just carved up the
drive into partitions, directly.  No partitions inside another container
business of the extended partition scheme that DOS used.  You want one,
two, or seven, partitions, you can have them.  You even had some good
GUI tools for dividing it up, letting you drag around the placement of
the partitions, and their size by dragging the widths of the bars.

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